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About us Practical matters How to find us Y. (Yasin) Koc, Dr

Research interests

I am a social psychologist broadly interested in the study of identity and intergroup processes. You can check out my lab and my work here at http://kocsocialidentitieslab.com/

Publications

Beyond traditional masculinities: Women’s perceptions of new masculinities

Chronic and contextual identity salience: Assessing dual-dimensional salience with the Identity Salience Questionnaire (ISQ)

Concerns About the Deportation of Friends or Family Members Shape U.S.-Born Latines’ Feelings About U.S. Immigration Policy With Implications for Collective Action for Immigrants’ Rights

Fostering Social Cohesion in Post-Conflict Societies: The Power of Normative Apologies in Reducing Competitive Victimhood and Enhancing Reconciliation and Intergroup Negotiation

How meta-humanization leads to conciliatory attitudes but not intergroup negotiation: The mediating roles of attribution of secondary emotions and blatant dehumanization

The Social Cure Properties of Groups Across Cultures: Groups Provide More Support but Have Stronger Norms and Are Less Curative in Relationally Immobile Societies

Unraveling image and justice concerns: A social identity account on appraisals and emotional drivers of high-status transgressor group members’ solidarity with low-status groups

Identifying important individual- and country-level predictors of conspiracy theorizing: A machine learning analysis

Need for approval from others and face concerns as predictors of interpersonal conflict outcome in 29 cultural groups

Pandemic boredom: Little evidence that lockdown-related boredom affects risky public health behaviors across 116 countries

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Press/media

New study suggests conservatives’ aversion to masks is a uniquely American phenomenon